Greetings Everyone,

I think it would be great if David joined in. I haven't posted much because
I don't get to as many of the shows as I would like, but that hasn't kept
David's CD's from spinning almost non-stop in the house, the car,
everywhere. (My second graders LOVE SS Bathtub....) Although I currently
live in Atlanta, I feel that David's music is a strong connection to WNC.
Sometimes it makes me incredibly homesick.

I heard the show with Gorka was great! I'm off to order Corners right now!

Take care everyone,
Jennifer
------Original Message------
From: lowerdryad@...
To: TheDryad@egroups.com
Sent: May 4, 2000 2:08:49 PM GMT
Subject: Re: [TheDryad] Digest Number 36


Hi folks,

David LaMotte here. It sure is cool to check in here and see forty-four
people on the list. Kathy informs me that there are 6000+ on the snailmail
list now, and 1200+ on the e-list. That sure makes a folky feel good. I
saw
Ben, the list moderator, at a show the other night and we were talking about
the fact that there are lots of people signed up, but not many people
talking, and we were trying to figure out how we can make the list a cooler
thing for you. Some of the ideas we kicked around resulted in this note.

When we first started talking about this last year I talked some with Kathy
and Ben about what my role in it should be. I decided that it would be
better if I weren't a list member, because I wanted you to feel free to say
whatever you want to each other, including "Whew, that was a ROTTEN show..."
and things like that. The other reason I decided not to join was that I
don't want to spend so much time gazing at my own bellybutton that I fall
in.
Let me put that more plainly... :) Musicians, and maybe singer/songwriters
especially, have a reputation for being pretty self-absorbed. That sure can
happen easily, and I want to be pretty intentional about not fulfilling that
stereotype, so I thought it would be better not to read lots of email ABOUT
me. Y'know?

So I don't know what your expectations for this list are, or how best to
serve you. One idea that we'll be implementing is that Josh and Kathy will
be doing more frequent updates here. That way there are levels to how
involved you want to be. If you'd just like to get an update every six or
eight weeks, you can just be on the e-mailing list. If you'd rather have
the
latest news and inside scoop on everything that's going on, you can be on
here and get them every week or two. Does that work for you?

The other question I have is where I fit in. Would it be more fun for folks
if I am on the list and a party to the discussions? Or would you rather
have
your privacy, as it were?

I'd be really grateful for your feedback on this stuff. I'd like it to be
what you want it to be, and if I can get a sense of what that is we'll make
every effort to make it work for you.

In other news we just started taking pre-orders for the new record, Corners,
with free shipping, at shows and on the web site. In the meantime, there's
a
page about it so you can check stuff out:
http://www.davidlamotte.com/albuminfo/corners.html Thanks for the steady
support over the years that allows me to take chances like borrowing lots of
money to make big expensive records. :)

Hit reply and let me know what you think, OK? I'll be checking in in the
next few days, then I'll either slink off again or join the fray, as you
choose.

Peace to you,

David

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